Hand Sanitiser Bunnings

Old and Grey · Senior Member

Hand Sanitiser Bunnings

PeterX · Senior Member

www.ozbargain.com.au/node/533569

www.bunnings.com.au/oomph-hand-sanitiser-500ml_p0180832

www.pascoes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Oomph-Hand-Sanitiser-SDS.pdf

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

We got a 500mL bottle in a "cheap shop" in our local shopping centre for $5.
Look around & you'll find some.

Possum3 · Guru

PeterX wrote:
www.pascoes.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Oomph-Hand-Sanitiser-SDS.pdf

Isn't it a pity that Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) are not displayed with the goods on sale, with any/all products.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I have been using a chemist brand from a major name chemist (not the warehouse mob) hand sanitiser for many moons before CV19 was even thought off and no matter what shop I got it from was just under $10 for a litre pump bottle. NOW! I haven't seen it for ages and other brands if available are around $15+ for a 500ml bottle and they are not OZ made ones, they are higher in price, many of them and that is if available anyway. In the area I'm in anyway.

I have a recipe for hand sanitiser and have found it difficult to get the ingredient's but finally got the three items needed so will mix that up and see what it is like.

What I am saying is the price is much higher now for similar product.

Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

diggerop · Senior Member

It would be good to know the alcohol content as that is what does the germ killing. If their claim of 99.9% is true it would be pretty high. Should be at least 60% by volume.

-- Edited by diggerop on Tuesday 16th of June 2020 10:45:59 AM

Thunda · Member

A friend makes his own and calls it popcorn majik, l call it moonshine, he reckons it prevents any virus attack and sanitizers you buy made in China, and sold by Bunnings are not as good.

And you get a lot more pleasure using his.

It also eases the confined to barracks syndrome.

It comes in five litre containers , made in Australia, used both internally and externaly.
I vote for his stuff.

-- Edited by Thunda on Tuesday 16th of June 2020 11:25:33 AM

-- Edited by Thunda on Tuesday 16th of June 2020 11:27:13 AM

Possum3 · Guru

diggerop wrote:
It would be good to know the alcohol content as that is what does the germ killing. If their claim of 99.9% is true it would be pretty high. Should be at least 60% by volume.

-- Edited by diggerop on Tuesday 16th of June 2020 10:45:59 AM

The MSDS provided states over 50% by weight Ethanol

Warren-Pat_01 · Guru

I read something a couple of days ago where it was stated that washing your hands with soap was the best. Hand sanitiser was only spoken of as this corona-virus issue came out. It is more convenient than soap as you can use it on the run.

PeterX · Senior Member

FROM
www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/hand-hygiene.html

CDC recommends using ABHR with greater than 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol in healthcare settings.
Unless hands are visibly soiled, an alcohol-based hand rub is preferred over soap and water
in most clinical situations due to evidence of better compliance compared to soap and water.
Hand rubs are generally less irritating to hands and are effective in the absence of a sink.

alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR)

PeterX · Senior Member

Experts say the gold standard is a sanitiser with 60 to 80 per cent alcohol
the level required to kill the virus if it is on your hands.

FROM
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-02/coronavirus-hand-sanitiser-may-not-be-effective/12110170

-- Edited by PeterX on Wednesday 8th of July 2020 08:15:41 PM

Mike Harding · Guru

Methylated spirits cut with 20% water.